Film
I Can't Sleep
- 6:30PM
Based on real events, Denis’ take on the serial killer thriller is a typically elusive, sensitive study of outsiderhood. On the margins of Paris, the lives of several struggling immigrants—including a Lithuanian aspiring actress and a gay West Indian drag performer—intersect against the backdrop of a wave of shocking murders, crimes depicted by Denis not as sensationalistic but as the chillingly banal product of desperate alienation.
Print courtesy of Institut Français, thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
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